ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,537, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Duke University (Durham, N.C.).

"High stability optomechanical system and cryo-package assembly for quantum computing" was invented by Jungsang Kim (Durham, N.C.), Ismail Inlek (Durham, N.C.) and Robert Spivey (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for an optomechanical system include an intermediate plate having a top surface with multiple tapped holes arranged in a grid. A pair of dowel pin holes surround each tapped hole in a linear pattern. Multiple optical blocks are coupled to the intermediate plate using dowel pins positioned in the dowel pin holes and corresponding do...